1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,280 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,119 In this episode we're talking about, what about Bigfoot? 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,720 That's correct. What about Bigfoot? 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,080 Bigfoot's a topic that we don't cover a ton on this program, but 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,120 I just think it's so fascinating with so many people having 6 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,720 reported these things. And the question often arises, 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,960 are these biological creatures, are they some sort of Cryptid? 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,560 Are they perhaps UFO alien ET non human entity related? 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,200 This first article takes us is from lifescience.com says the 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,520 most famous Bigfoot sightings written by Patrick Pester 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,920 published December 27th 2022. Bigfoot are Sasquatch is one of 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,920 North America's most enduring legends with thousands of people 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,440 claiming to have seen the giant ape like creature. 14 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,080 Here are the most famous Bigfoot sightings it says and it's got a 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,880 pretty cool illustration. Here it says Bigfoot or 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,000 Sasquatch is one of North America's most enduring legends. 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,840 The scientific community largely dismisses the idea of a large 18 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,840 unknown ape like creatures sauntering through the forest 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,640 because there's never been any hard evidence that such an 20 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,120 animal exists. Now I will say there's been some 21 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,960 hair samples found that have come back I believe has non 22 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:15,920 human that they really haven't resolved it. 23 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,720 And I think part of the problem with this might be just because 24 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,480 people are so close minded about this stuff, it says. 25 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,040 Nonetheless, there have been thousands of reported eyewitness 26 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,680 accounts over the last half century from people all over the 27 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,680 US and Canada. Here are some of the most famous 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,760 Bigfoot sightings. One of the most famous Bigfoot 29 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,200 sightings allegedly occurred on Mica Mountain in British 30 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,880 Columbia in 1955, when a man called William Rowe claimed he 31 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,600 saw a partly human, partly animal creature while hiking. 32 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,280 He swore in affidavit in 1957 that the creature was about 6 33 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:52,760 foot tall and covered in brown silver tipped hair with thick 34 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,080 arms, reaching down to its knees, broad feet and breast, 35 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,000 according to the Alberto Sasquatch organization website. 36 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,440 Now this would just be quite an animal. 37 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,400 It's 6 feet tall, not as tall as we think of a lot of these 38 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,320 Bigfoot, possibly a juvenile, who knows, but the fact that his 39 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,800 arms reached clear down to its knees, he says. 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,440 As I watched this creature I wondered if some movie company 41 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,480 was making a film at this place and what I saw was an actor 42 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,080 made-up to look partly human and partly animal, wrote wrote in 43 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,800 his 1957 affidavit. But as I observed it more, I 44 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,400 decided it would be impossible to fake such a specimen. 45 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,560 According to abominable science origins of the Yeti nasty other 46 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,440 famous cryptids rose ape like siding marks a change from 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,000 earlier Sasquatch accounts from British Columbia which 48 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,200 repeatedly describes Sasquatch as a giant sized indigenous 49 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,960 person. In other words, it was the birth 50 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,360 of modern Bigfoot, though that name wouldn't emerge for another 51 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,000 year. Scientists argue that eyewitness 52 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,960 testimony isn't always reliable. So this and other sightings are 53 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,440 not conclusive evidence? Well, of course they're not 54 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,280 conclusive, but they're eyewitness evidence, OK? 55 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:02,320 And we've talked about many times during this program. 56 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,360 People are locked up all over this country based on eyewitness 57 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,400 evidence. So if eyewitness evidence is not 58 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,080 worth anything, I guess we better change the court system, 59 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,640 hadn't we? Prospector Albert Osment claimed 60 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:16,080 that he spent around a week with a Bigfoot family near Toba 61 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,480 Inlet, British Columbia in 1924. Osman was camping alone when he 62 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,040 says he was scooped up in his sleeping bag by a Papa Bigfoot 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,040 and taken to meet Mama Bigfoot and two Bigfoot children. 64 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,800 Osman was supposedly held captive by the family, but said 65 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,560 he eventually escaped when Papa Bigfoot ate Osman's chewing 66 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,360 tobacca and fell. I'll According to a retelling of 67 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,080 the story, anthropologist David Daling's book Bigfoot Exposed 68 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,920 and Anthropologist examines American enduring legend. 69 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,440 Yeah, some people don't really like to swallow that tobacco 70 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,200 juice. It can be nasty if you're not 71 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,080 used to it, that's for sure. Ossman's description of his 72 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,360 captors are similar to that of Rose 1957 account. 73 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,240 However, Dagling points out in his book that even though Osman 74 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:06,880 said the encounter took place in 1924, he didn't write it down 75 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,080 until 1957, after he heard Rose tell. 76 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,000 So he may have been inspired or influenced by Roe. 77 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,000 Well, that's quite possible. But you know, a lot of times 78 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,560 those old timers, they heard things, saw things they just 79 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,360 never talked about. It goes on and says what is 80 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,560 likely the most famous Bigfoot sighting was caught on camera in 81 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,400 1967. The Patterson Gimlin film is a 82 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,280 minute long video that appears to show a female Bigfoot, later 83 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,800 nicknamed Patty, walking through a clearing in Northern 84 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,640 California. The film was still often held up 85 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,800 by Bigfoot believers as the best piece of evidence for the 86 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,640 creature's existence. The scientific community has 87 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,880 overwhelmingly dismissed the film as showing a person wearing 88 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,240 a costume. Well, we know you have to follow 89 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,200 the science, don't you? Because hey, we've got this 90 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,320 elite group of people on top that know everything. 91 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,200 Their name, science. Just do what do whatever they 92 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,720 tell you, believe whatever they say. 93 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,560 Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at 94 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,520 Idaho State University. We've seen this guy on TV 8. 95 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,400 Seems like a pretty cool guy to me and author of Sasquatch 96 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,000 Legend Me Science is one of the few science to publicly backed 97 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:10,840 the film and the existence of Bigfoot. 98 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:14,120 Meldrum told Live Science that not only is he convinced the 99 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,400 film was real, but believes it's grown more incredible. 100 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:17,960 It's grown more credible over time. 101 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,320 The creature's walk was criticized in the 1960s for 102 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,840 being too human. But Meldrum argues that the 103 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,240 subsequent scientific discoveries, such as Lucy, an 104 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,160 extinct 3.2 million year old human ancestor, reveal or ape 105 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,640 like ancestors walked upright. So there's now a scientific 106 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,080 justification for the creatures of human like gait. 107 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,160 Yeah, I think that Meldrum kind of goes for the idea that these 108 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,440 things are some sort of, you know, throwback species to the 109 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,440 humans. I'm not so sure. 110 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,640 Maybe. It seems to me though, that 111 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,240 they're a lot more likely to be some sort of non human entity. 112 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,000 What you see in that film is exactly how we envision 113 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,600 something like a robust author put the scene to look at, 114 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,200 Meldrum said. It's almost as if now the 115 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,840 science has finally caught up to this whole phenomena of Bigfoot. 116 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,320 Meldrum noted that anatomical features visible on the film, 117 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,560 such as the proportions of the face, match up with early 118 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,600 humans, such as Parenthropus Boise, a species that lived 119 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,600 around 2.3 million years ago to 1.2 million years ago. 120 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,560 According to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural 121 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,200 History, the size of the creature in the film was 122 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:30,080 estimated to be to be between 6:00 and 7:00 foot tall. 123 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,440 Wow, that's, you know, it would be kind of neat if they could go 124 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,360 back and really do an exact estimation on that. 125 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,960 Maybe they have, and someone can tell us exactly how high, how 126 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,000 tall they think this thing was. And, you know, if it's seven 127 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,560 foot tall, I think we could pretty well rule out the same 128 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,360 being a man. Unless, unless you know that 129 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,960 that that the head costume would be that much outsized. 130 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,280 I don't know. However, most experts are not 131 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,760 convinced by the footage. Deron Nish, a paleozoologist and 132 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,800 the author of Hunting Monsters, Cryptozoology and Reality Behind 133 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,080 the Mists, summarize plenty of reasons to question the film's 134 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,280 authenticity in a 2020 Twitter thread. 135 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,640 Most notably, he highlights that Patterson, who shot the film, 136 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,280 had already turned Bigfoot into a money spending operation 137 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,960 before releasing it. But Nisha as that Patty's Pelt 138 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,360 appears to glisten and move like that of a real animal, and her 139 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,960 muscle movements look genuine, suggesting it's a very good 140 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:23,960 hoax. No matter how much evidence you 141 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,160 give some of these people, they're never going to entertain 142 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,080 the possibility that these things are real. 143 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,840 Brian Riggle, an associate professor of history science at 144 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,400 Keene University in New Jersey and author of Searching for 145 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,840 Sasquatch, Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology, is more 146 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,800 damning of the film. You know, with a title like 147 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,800 that, I mean, what? What are you going to assume and 148 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,200 told life Science that people project their own views on the 149 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,680 Paddy? You look at it and you see what 150 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,120 you want to believe, he said. I don't know. 151 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,560 I'm just looking at it and seeing this creature walk across 152 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,160 the Creek, and I don't know if it's a man in a suit or an 153 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,280 animal, but it looks pretty convincing. 154 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,640 The Ape Canyon incident in 1924 wasn't so much an alleged 155 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:05,280 sighting as a supposed battle. A group of gold prospectors 156 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,160 claimed they defended their cabin against multiple Gorilla 157 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,880 Men in a gorge later named Ape Canyon on the side of Mount 158 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:14,280 Saint Helens. One of the miners, Fred Beck, 159 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,680 allegedly shot at a Sasquatch during the day, which prompted a 160 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,720 gang of its Harry Brethren to seek revenge. 161 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,120 Come nightfall. The creatures are said to have 162 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,520 pelted the miners cabin with rocks and boulders, and one even 163 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,960 reached an arm inside. The miners survive the onslaught 164 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,120 and as the sun rose, the beast retreated back into the woods, 165 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,480 possibly after Beck shot 1. Beck returned to the scene with 166 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,679 US forest Rangers after news broke of the attack. 167 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:42,799 The Rangers couldn't find a Sasquatch body and apparently 168 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,680 weren't impressed with the large stones they found next to the 169 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,640 cabin or the supposed giant footprints nearby, the local 170 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,320 Oregonian newspaper reported at the time. 171 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,440 The Rangers seemed to think the miners placed the stones there 172 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,240 themselves and that the footprints were made by a human 173 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:05,080 hand. 1924 I mean, you know, these guys just had to work hard 174 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,200 enough to get through a day. It seems hard to imagine they 175 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,080 would have had time to Jack around with this stuff. 176 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,520 One popular explanation for the Canyon story? 177 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:14,880 Four of us skeptics, other than the miners simply making up, is 178 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,520 that the miners were actually set upon by a gang of local 179 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,600 youth throwing rocks at the cabin for fun, according to 180 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,560 travel website Atlas Obscure. Although this doesn't account 181 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:25,120 for all the aspects of the story. 182 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,400 Yeah, it's a favorite thing these guys like to do. 183 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,400 They just throw some, you know, some garbage up against the wall 184 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,800 and see if it sticks, ignore the evidence, and then cite an 185 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,880 anonymous source. That's kind of the that's that's 186 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,040 kind of the MO here. Scott Tompkins, the data manager 187 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,520 and founder of the Bigfoot Mapping Project, a website that 188 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,040 hosts around 8000 historical and modern Bigfoot sightings, told 189 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,840 Life Science that most Bigfoot sightings he's mapped don't end 190 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:53,840 in conflict. When people describe the 191 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,720 behavior of such creatures, they seem to be very curious but non 192 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,200 confrontational. As Tompkins said. 193 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,400 I can, I can understand that it seems like these if these things 194 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,920 were really out to get you, it seems like there'd be a lot more 195 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,480 missing people and a lot more dead people. 196 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,960 I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I'm just saying it 197 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,320 seems like that's not the normal, the normal role these 198 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,800 things play. There are many Bigfoot videos on 199 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,680 YouTube, but few are as popular as a clip from Provo Canyon, 200 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,800 Utah. The video appears to show a 201 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:23,080 large black animal hunched over in the trees, possibly feeding 202 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,520 or foraging. The camera zooms in to try to 203 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,800 get a closer look, and a few seconds later the great creature 204 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,240 stands up on two legs as if it's bipedal. 205 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,040 This causes the pair behind the camera to immediately turn and 206 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,280 run away. The video was posted October 207 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,840 30th, 2012 and has amassed more than 7.6 million views on 208 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,680 YouTube, according to account uploader Beard card, the pair 209 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,840 were on a camping trip, hoping to get a closer look at a deer 210 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,560 on a hill. On our way up we thought we saw 211 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,480 a bear until the monster stood up and looked straight at us, 212 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,480 Bear Card wrote in the video description. 213 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,000 We ran straight to the car after that, leaving our tent and 214 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,280 everything behind. It's probably all still up 215 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,480 there. Wow, that would be pretty 216 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,680 frightening I suppose, Even if it was a black bear. 217 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,760 I mean, still you're you have this big animal just staring up 218 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:09,760 and confronting you. Almost. 219 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,960 The Provo Canyon video short and inconclusive, Eric Record, 220 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:18,480 curator of Vertebrate zoology at the Natural History Museum of 221 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,800 Utah, told Fox 13 News, Utah after a more recent alleged 222 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,480 sighting in 2019 that science didn't support a Bigfoot in the 223 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,160 state. Yep, follow the science. 224 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,560 Must not be a Bigfoot. Well, it's the likelihood that 225 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:35,720 there are big animals that have gone undetected by scientists 226 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,560 and by trained observers, Rickard said. 227 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,080 There are lots of things to discover, particularly in the 228 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,680 natural world, that they don't take the form of giant apes 229 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:45,520 running around in largely settled areas of the world. 230 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,280 Well, that's exactly why I think these things are cooked as a 231 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,320 some sort and they're not by lot. 232 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,160 Maybe they maybe they take on a biological form, you know, but 233 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,960 there's some sort of non human entity. 234 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,080 I believe Skunk Apes are supposedly swamp dwelling 235 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,320 versions of Bigfoot that are rumored to roam the southeastern 236 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:06,560 US. October 28th, 2013 a YouTube 237 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,840 account named Josh Highcliffe uploaded one of the most popular 238 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,720 Skunk Ape videos. In it the cameraman films a 239 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,400 potential skunk ape forging in a Mississippi swamp. 240 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,680 It looks like a gorilla squatted down big broad shoulders, little 241 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,720 peaked head, and it's pulling off chunks of wood that seemed 242 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,400 to demonstrate extreme strength. Then all of a sudden it stands 243 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,840 up and it's got these long legs, Meldrum said, impressed by the 244 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,920 video but yet to examine it in detail. 245 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,280 The last shot of the creature in the video comes just as it 246 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,320 stands up, somewhere to the 2012 Provo Canyon video. 247 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,760 Unfortunately, people filming Bigfoot have a tendency to 248 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,880 suddenly jerk the camera and run away just as they're about to 249 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,440 get a good view of 1. Understandably fearful and if 250 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,720 the creature exists, but convenient if they're creating a 251 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,800 host. Folks, this is one of many 252 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,280 reasons why skeptics to cry such videos and ask believers to 253 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,200 produce a body. I think asking people to produce 254 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,360 a body this thing is a bad idea because you're going to 255 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,360 eventually end up with some jughead out there wearing a 256 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,960 Bigfoot costume that gets shot and killed. 257 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,880 And like we had the guy that was trying to prank people wearing a 258 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,280 Bigfoot costume a few years ago, it ran out in front of a car, 259 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,120 got himself killed, and we don't want that. 260 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,920 In 2008, two men, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitten, claimed to 261 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,600 possess a frozen body of a Bigfoot specimen. 262 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:23,400 They said they found it while hiking in the woods in northern 263 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,680 Georgia. Their story made headlines, but 264 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:28,000 the body turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit. 265 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,120 Yeah, you're always going to have these these knuckleheads 266 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,480 trying to, you know, prank the media. 267 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,080 It's not helpful now, it says here. 268 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,160 While not a sighting per SE, Bigfoot footprints are among the 269 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,960 most commonly reported aspects of the Bigfoot phenomena. 270 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,640 Even the name Bigfoot stems from a seemingly bogus 1958 story 271 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,600 about giant footprints in Northern California found by a 272 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,560 man called Ray Wallace. His children later claimed that 273 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:54,720 their prints were their father's prank, according to the 274 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,240 Smithsonian. Meldrum argues that hoaxers are 275 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,760 rare and that he's got plenty of legitimate footprints that back 276 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,440 up the masses of sightings. Yeah, I think there probably are 277 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,960 a little bit of both on these. I've got over 300 footprint cast 278 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,800 copies and original materials in my laboratory that formed the 279 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,880 basis of remarkable body of data that attest to the fact that 280 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,080 there is something out there leaving these footprints, 281 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,800 Meldrum said. And the most straightforward 282 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,040 answer is that it's a bipedal primate species that's not 283 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,280 recognized by science. Skeptics, however, will wait for 284 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,200 a body. All right. 285 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,200 Just feel like if there ever was a body found that that thing's 286 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,160 going to disappear quicker than the June snow. 287 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,520 I tell you, they're not going to let you have one of these things 288 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,600 if you do find one. And then I hate to be the guy 289 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,680 that turned it in. Now, I did find another personal 290 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,360 tale on Reddit about somebody had a Bigfoot experience. 291 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,560 I did a little editing on it and it's also insightful, I think, 292 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,400 this person says. When I was younger, I arrived at 293 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,120 the conclusion that Sasquatch couldn't possibly exist. 294 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,720 Initially I held on to optimism, but my enthusiasm waned as all 295 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,920 intriguing pieces of evidence were consistently disproven. 296 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,480 Quote UN quote. Even the more compelling proof, 297 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,800 such as the Patterson Gimlin Field and the Skokin Cache were 298 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,160 almost invariably dismissed as proven hoaxes. 299 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,520 Despite the continuous sightings, the subjects only 300 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,160 remaining alerted me stem from first hand accounts. 301 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,280 Numerous individuals share their experiences with me, devoid of 302 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,880 any apparent ulterior motives. What kept me intrigued was a 303 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,440 sheer number of people who, throughout the history, claimed 304 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,920 to witness the same phenomena. It seemed implausible that 305 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,840 thousands would lie about seeing something inexplicable. 306 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,040 I might question my sanity and light of the encounter I had 307 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,280 five years ago, but I'm certain it wasn't a figment on my 308 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,000 imagination. I'm not alone in having such an 309 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,880 experience. On that day, which started like 310 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,600 any other, I never anticipated anything out of the ordinary. 311 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,080 As someone with Asperger's, I've always been a I've always been a 312 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,680 distinct individual, more passionate about certain 313 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,480 subjects than others. Locally, I'm known as the kid 314 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,360 with an extensive knowledge of animals who spends a significant 315 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,400 amount of time outdoors. On December 15th, 2018, at the 316 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,280 age of 14, I suggested to my parents that we take a drive 317 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,920 around Patoga Lake. The evening was relatively warm, 318 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,360 around 55°, and I hope to spot some deer or birds. 319 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,880 Our entire family, five of us, embarked on this drive in 320 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,440 Crawford County. As we drove past Patoka Lake and 321 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,600 continued along, I64I peered out the window at the Hoosier 322 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,240 National Forest. Occasionally blinded by the 323 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,360 sun's glare, I lost track of the roads we traversed and precisely 324 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,040 where my sighting occurred. However, I recall a brick house 325 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,720 with a long driveway surrounded by trees nearby. 326 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,560 Approximately 100 feet away, I saw a figure walking parallel to 327 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,480 the road. I estimate it stood at least 7 328 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,280 feet tall, gauging its size against the driveway's width. 329 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,640 The creature had peculiar proportions. 330 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:02,000 Short legs, a sizable torso, and elongated arms, all covered in 331 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,160 long black hair. Its muscles resembled those of a 332 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,760 bodybuilder. Despite its human like 333 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,480 appearance. It sported a cone head and a 334 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,720 brow Ridge reminiscent of a gorilla. 335 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,760 I observed every detail except for the face, barely 336 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,640 recognizable from my vantage point. 337 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,680 It felt like witnessing the Patterson Gimlin film in person 338 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,680 with previously unnoted details. Now standing out in disbelief. 339 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,680 I was silent for about 5 minutes after the sighting. 340 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,320 Numerous questions raised through my mind, making it 341 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,600 difficult to articulate words. Eventually I mustered the 342 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,240 courage to tell my family I saw Bigfoot. 343 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,040 My sister, who claimed to have seen it when she was 6, 344 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,560 exclaimed. I told you it was real, although 345 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,880 I suggested turning back the lack of suitable places to do so 346 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,760 in the encroaching darkness prevented us. 347 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,360 My dad wholeheartedly believed me, pointing out my neck for 348 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:57,120 spotting things obscured from view, like a deer hidden in 349 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:00,320 bushes only visible from the top part of its head. 350 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,400 If I had spoken up immediately, might we might have captured the 351 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,040 best piece of Bigfoot footage. Ever since that sighting I've 352 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,960 delved into researching other possible sightings in Crawford 353 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,360 County. Now I bring that ready to use 354 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:15,520 camera every time I hike. Witnesses descriptions 355 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,920 consistently mentioned black collar, bipedal walking and 356 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,720 gorilla like features. These sightings typically occur 357 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,160 between evening and morning, suggesting the species might be 358 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,920 nocturnal. Food sources are often linked to 359 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,160 the creature, with reports of sightings near deer or crops, 360 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,080 but took a lake, Marengo and Harrison Crawford Forest are hot 361 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,640 spots for sightings in Crawford. I've discovered numerous people 362 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,160 openly discussing Bigfoot, to the point where it feels like 363 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,320 the species might have more sightings than some known, maybe 364 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,280 native species, such as Gray foxes and weasels. 365 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,320 When you consider the idea of a wild person surviving in the 366 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,880 woods, the existence of Sasquatch seems more plausible. 367 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,440 Humans with fewer offspring, longer lifespans, and higher 368 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,480 intellect could, with a few wilderness adaptations, endure 369 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,160 in such an environment. This creature with its longer 370 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:09,520 arms for forging, A sagittal Crest for chewing, larger feet 371 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,640 for balance and features regulating temperature, aligns 372 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,560 with this concept with once being 15 different species and 373 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,800 the Homo genius. I believe Homo sapiens aren't 374 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,360 the only sole survivors today. Perhaps there is more evidence 375 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:25,360 of Sasquatch that remains unrecognized. 376 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,320 I'm now certain that the Patterson Gimlin film was 377 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,240 genuine and skepticism might be obscuring judgment for many 378 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,960 other pieces of evidence. Quite possible. 379 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,680 There again, you know we talk about all these problems with 380 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,800 these things being biological only creatures that just happen 381 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,040 to live here as a subspecies. Those problems are kind of just 382 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,000 solved if you look at these things as being some type of non 383 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,920 human entity. And we have to ask ourself, 384 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,400 could they be the non human entity that Tucker Carlson and 385 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,000 Tom Delong and so many others have been talking about? 386 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:00,560 Maybe just here testing us out, testing the environment, looking 387 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,160 for their niche. Until next time, this UFO 388 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,240 warning over now.